Basic Trope: Stepping on a banana peel will result in the character slipping.
- Straight: Bob slips on a banana peel.
- Exaggerated:
- Stepping on a banana peel sends Bob into a Slippery Skid that ends with a painful crash.
- A banana peel on the train tracks causes the train to crash.
- Downplayed: Bob steps on a banana peel and slips a bit, but manages to regain his balance before falling.
- Justified: The banana peel is a prank item that has been treated to be extra slippery.
- Inverted:
- Bob the Banana slips on a piece of human skin.
- Bob trips on a peeled banana.
- Subverted: Bob is about to step on a banana peel but notices it just in time and avoids slipping.
- Double Subverted: ...only to slip on something else.
- Parodied:
- Banana peels are outlawed because they're dangerous.
- A character who is normally an Iron Butt Monkey is seriously injured after slipping on a banana peel.
- Zig Zagged: Banana peels vary in power - sometimes they aren't slippery at all, other times they function as makeshift landmines.
- Averted: Banana peels aren't slippery or aren't slipped on.
- Enforced: The show has to feature a Public Service Announcement on the dangers of banana peel slipping.
- Lampshaded: "A banana peel on the floor and someone slips on it? I didn't see that coming."
- Invoked: Bob eats a banana, considers the peel is meant to be slipped on, then puts it on the ground and steps on it intentionally.
- Defied: "Stop! There's a banana peel right in front of you!"
- Exploited: The hero drops a banana peel to slow down mooks in a chase.
- Discussed: Bob eats a banana and talks to himself about how, if he was a character in a comedy/cartoon, he could throw the peel on the ground and wait for someone to slip on it.
- Conversed: "With all that slipping, I'd assume those banana peels were made of soap."
- Implied: Alice eats a banana and throws the peel off-screen. We then hear Bob shout "Whoa!" and a crash noise.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob slips on a banana peel. His hip is broken and he must spend a long time in a hospital.
- Bob slips on a banana peel. He dies.
- Reconstructed: Bob makes new friends at the hospital and becomes the poster guy of a banana peel awareness campaign.
- Played For Drama: The book/movie/etc. is about Bob's wife Alice suffering through her husband's death/traumatic injury brought on by a single banana peel.
Back to Banana Peel. But make sure you don't slip!
